Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 41

"I am going to Iolchos," answered the young man, "to bid the wicked King Pelias come down from my father's throne, and let me reign in his stead."

Who acts: young man, wicked King Pelias · What happens: go, answer, bid, come down, let, reign · To what, where: Iolchos, throne, young man, stead · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, wicked King Pelias), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 answered	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Iolchos	case
6	Iolchos	Iolchos	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bid	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 bid	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bid	mark
16	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Pelias	det
18	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Pelias	amod
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Pelias	compound
20	Pelias	pelia	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bid	parataxis
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	27 throne	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 throne	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 father	case
27	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 let	cc
30	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 come	parataxis
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 let	obj
32	reign	reign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 let	xcomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 stead	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 stead	nmod:poss
35	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reign	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 bid	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 bid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	the young man = man		Iolchos		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to iolchos=Initial_Location
2	answer speech: assert	past	the young man				tree rules
3	bid in a quote	to-infinitive					tree rules
4	come down in a quote	present	the wicked King Pelias		my father's throne	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from throne=Initial_Location
5	let in a quote	infinitive		the young man = man			tree rules
6	reign in a quote	infinitive	the young man = man not said here		Jason's stead		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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